Tell me why Putin didn't go further after his intrusion into Georgia at the behest of the Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, at that time in 2008 to quell what was claimed to be an attempt of insurrection?
You keep insisting that Putin has all of these nefarious designs on Europe without producing scintilla of evidence to support that claim. But the reality is that Putin has his hands full in Ukraine. Ukraine is running out of manpower which will ultimately be the real cause of Ukraine's downfall.
All you have to do is read Putin’s guidestars, Aleksandr Dugin and Ivan Ilych. Or read speeches of his military leadership. But you won’t because it would destroy your preconceived ideas about the world.